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The Week's Links: April 18,2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Can You Identify These Cities From Their Light Signatures? http://owl.li/vEP3W
  • Is That Someone's House? What Astronauts Can See Looking Down http://owl.li/vEPf4
  • The Problem with Being Too Nice http://owl.li/vzELD
  • What It's Like To Design A Font From Scratch http://owl.li/vF9nv
  • 101-year-old bottle message found http://owl.li/vzG39
  • In memory of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who died today at 87, a look back at Jon Lee Anderson’s Profile of the writer: nyr.kr/QrWkWW
  • Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87 - NYTimes.com owl.li/vUqav
  • The Guilt of the Video-Game Millionaires: The New Yorker owl.li/vyTro
  • The Purpose of Philosophy is to Ask the Right Questions (Video) owl.li/vzED9
  • ◉Simplicity and Innovation owl.li/vaDwK
  • The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies Ever owl.li/vyTem
  • The Key to Lasting Behavioral Change: Think Goal, Not Tactic owl.li/vyX2P
  • The resurgence of ballet in opera. owl.li/vySMO
  • Fantastic resource: Introducing Typekit Practice owl.li/vTnG9
  • ◉ The Surprising Science Behind Why and When We Yawn - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/16…
  • Where Does The Internet Get Its Energy? Tech Companies' Power Sources, Visualized owl.li/vyUuh
  • 7 Priceless Items People Sold on eBay owl.li/vyP9c
  • Greed Is Good: A 300-Year History of a Dangerous Idea owl.li/vyUma
  • A Visual Tour Of America's Most Fascinating Public Libraries owl.li/vyU2V
  • Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum owl.li/vxuqb
  • 101 Kick-Ass Music Magazine Covers owl.li/vyJDy
  • ◉ Seth Godin on Revolutions owl.li/vaDw5
  • 10 Things Highly Intuitive People Do Differently owl.li/vxuoQ
  • ◉ How Disruptive Innovations Happen At The Edges - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/16…
  • How advertising cookies let observers follow you across the web owl.li/vxAi8
  • ◉ Wally Olins, a tribute - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/16…
  • Free Online Shakespeare Courses: Primers on the Bard from Oxford, Harvard, Berkeley & More owl.li/vxueH
  • John Hegarty's 5 Most Provocative Thoughts About Creativity owl.li/vxxYN
  • On the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination, read the Sacramento Daily Union’s account of the night. 4/16/1865 owl.li/vQW3Y
  • Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend owl.li/vxubq
  • TED Playlist: The future of medicine owl.li/vxxQz
  • Can You Read People's Emotions? owl.li/vxus0
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/vPGgI
  • Using The Science Behind Habits To Sell Better owl.li/vtlz2
  • The Ultimate Guide to Solving iOS Battery Drain owl.li/vul1L
  • ◉ Take Up Computer Games, Not Crosswords, As You Age owl.li/vaDvp
  • First Time Nationwide: Portland Presents All Of Shakespeare’s Works In Two Years owl.li/vtlxN
  • Bronze Sculptures of Five Extinct Birds Land in Smithsonian Gardens owl.li/vuds0
  • 11 Of The World's Most Beautiful Libraries owl.li/vtltc
  • One big reason we lack Internet competition: Starting an ISP is really hard owl.li/vudr2
  • ◉ Michael Wolff: Never Stop Asking "Why?" - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/13…
  • Scientists Create an Unprecedented Map of the Developing Human Brain owl.li/vtlqC
  • Focus is like a muscle: It needs exercise owl.li/vudpW
  • Museums urged to think a little like Ben & Jerry's owl.li/vtlRu
  • Pulitzer Prizes 2014: Winners announced owl.li/vMWv5
  • How to do software like Nasa, by Nasa owl.li/vtkJD
  • Can animals really dance? Study reveals which animals can, and which can't owl.li/vtlpj
  • ◉ Bajofondo "Lluvia" owl.li/vaDuc
  • Harvard discovers three of its library books are bound in human flesh owl.li/vtkHR
  • Interview with Oscar Ramos Orozco, Chief Curator of Behance owl.li/vtkPD
  • This Is What It's Like To Watch A Holographic Musician owl.li/vtkCy
  • Google Maps and border disputes: How the service responds to disputed territory like Crimea. owl.li/vtkMP
  • ◉ Font War: Inside the Design World's $20 Million Divorce - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/13…
  • Watch Pixar's New Animation System Make Monsters In Real Time owl.li/vtkzF
  • Yelp Lets You Search With Emoji owl.li/vtkLB
  • Why Is Facebook Page Reach Decreasing? More Competition And Limited Attention owl.li/vtkKK
  • Data Point: Social Networking Is Moving on From the Desktop owl.li/vtky9
  • The Majority of Web Traffic Comes From Robots owl.li/vsbas
  • Why MIA and Janelle Monae's Hologram Collab Signals The Inevitable Future of Concerts owl.li/vsbkT
  • What’s Next in the World of Making owl.li/vs9j1
  • A Tumblr Blog That Archives Old & New IBM Graphics owl.li/vsbgt
  • ‘Shape’, A Fascinating Animated Short Film About How Design Can Be Used owl.li/vs9dx
  • One Thing Productive People Do Before Reaching for their Phones owl.li/vsben
  • Understanding Habit: How to Build a Product That Gets Used Daily owl.li/vs94S
  • Microsoft Is Suddenly a New Company. But Is It Too Late? owl.li/vsbcF
  • Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus May Have a Giant Liquid Water Lake owl.li/vsbbw
  • Why The Security Bug Heartbleed Has A Catchy Logo owl.li/vJ4JH
  • Discovery, Science to broadcast Google moon landing live owl.li/vs93t
  • Spontaneous ad recall is 28% higher when viewed using touch screen, study shows owl.li/voHiG
  • 10 Wonderful Illustrations from the Original Manuscript of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince owl.li/vs90O
  • "Grand Budapest Hotel" Spices Up Movie Posters With Spotify Playlists owl.li/voBke
  • The internet didn’t invent viral content or clickbait journalism — there’s just more of it now, and it happens faster owl.li/voWBQ
  • Fantastic: For the First Time Ever, Explore Angkor Wat With Google Street View owl.li/voBdC
  • TED2014 summarized in an infographic owl.li/voWpZ
  • "Poetry Is Like Pooping" And Other Writing Tips From A TED Superstar owl.li/vouDs
  • 5 Incredibly Effective Ways to Work Smarter, Not Harder owl.li/vIlWy
  • Why Website Speed is Important. Case studies from Amazon, Akamai, Google and others. owl.li/voW7L
  • Driven: how Zipcar's founders built and lost a car-sharing empire owl.li/voVD4
  • MIT Unveils The Shapeshifting Furniture Of The Future owl.li/vHUZY
  • 5 Unexpected Ways To Get More Done owl.li/vosL1
  • Actresses Lucy Lawless & Jaime Murray Perform Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit" for The Partially Examined Life Podcast owl.li/vouhK
  • ◉ Caro Emerald: Tangles, Transitions and Textures owl.li/vaDsz
  • Humanism and the meaning of stories - The Chronicle of Higher Education owl.li/vomup
  • ◉ Recommended: 100 Ideas That Changed Art owl.li/vtliH
  • Buzz Aldrin On Tinkering With The Bounds Of What's Possible owl.li/votTQ
  • What Books Should Every Intelligent Person Read?: Tell Us Your Picks; We'll Tell You Ours owl.li/vn3Qw
  • Elon Musk's Rule About Job Interviews owl.li/votGf
  • Great: Tools for the Classroom - 21st Century Literacy owl.li/vn3PC
  • Beautiful Equations: Documentary Explores the Beauty of Einstein & Newton's Great Equations owl.li/votsn
  • What Problem Are You Solving? owl.li/vothJ